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Philosophy 101 notes: 9/10/10
This is a summary of the ideas and principles that are developed in a much richer and
complicated argument of chapter 2 On Liberty. If you cannot develop reasons and
principles for a statement that you believe is true, it is

11-17-10
What does human happiness consist of?
How do virtues collectively define happiness?
happiness is the excellent use of reason-reflecting, deciding, planning
*reason guides our actions
happiness is not just doing the right thing, but taking pleasur

11-8-10
*Darwin-morality can evolve
*starts with social instincts
*animals live in packs and protect each other*animals do selfless things: making warning cries alert the predator to their presence
*interspecies mutualism-birds live on rhinos, pick the bu

11-3-10
*pcriticisms of Marx
*Murachik-uses Welsh communes as examples of failed socialism experiments
*not really good evidence against Marxist thought
*Marx said that industry exacerbates the gap between the haves and the have-nots and that the revoluti

11-1-10
*views of society
*individualist vs. organacist
*Marx- organacist
*man is a part of nature
*other views
*man against nature
*man above nature
*man is a species being
Man makes his life activity itself the object of his will and of his consciousnes

10-29-10
*Simone Weil
*rights and obligations
*a right for someone is an obligation for someone else
*a man who is alone in the world has no rights, but he does have obligations
*you have obligations to yourself
*most fundamental feature of morality-needs

10-20-10
Cynical Views of Human Nature
*Machiavelli and Hobbes
*respond better to fear than love
*need to be told what to do
*people are violent, selfish
*confirmation bias
Machiavellis rules for ruling people
1) better to be feared than loved
*what is it

10-18-10
Paper due Tuesday, oct. 26th at 11:59 pm
Deadline for help-Friday
Liberal view of human nature
*freedom is valuable
*happiness is best achieved through self-determination
*pluralistic conception of human flourishing
*not one way to be fulfilled-t

10-13-10
*Rousseau-civilization undermines mans natural virtue
*glorified view of human nature-he says we are physically well organized, not prone to sickness (not true?)
*we have inequality by nature-were not all given the same physical and mental capabi

10-8-10
*Mill-legal punishment does not have jurisdiction over actions which only affect the person committing them
*experiments in living-doing different things in life-similar to search for truth
*how can you find what is right for you if you dont try d

10-6-10
*Mill-focuses on liberty as a fundamental right
*individual freedom is necessary because that is how people find their happiness
*Hobhouse-focuses on a communal ideal
*you get to the best kind of human life by getting there yourself, no one can gi

11-10-10
E.O. Wilson
*most variation between people at genetic level is variation between individuals, not groups
*one group is not much different than another
*some elements of personality are genetic
*according to Wilson, culture, at some level, has a g

11-15-10
*aristotle-nicomachean ethics
*you can't have clear-cut rules for ethics
*instead of rules, he paints a picture of what the excellent man would be like/what he would do
*highest good for humans is happiness
*Aristotle's conception of virtue is hi

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Caffrey Francis
September 21, 2010
M/W/F 11-11:50
Professor Felis
Consequences of Beliefs
In religion, faith is the strong belief in a higher power. Having a religious faith is a
societys foundation in saying what is right and wrong. Although faith shap

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Caffrey Francis
October 14, 2010
Dr. Mcquillan
T/TH- 4:30-5:45
Thesis- Odysseus and Oedipus self-hoods are similar because they both were very
dedicated to their country in which they ruled.
Odysseus was continuously dedicated in getting back to his hom

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Caffrey Francis
December 12, 2010
Dr. Felis
M/W/F: 11:00-11:50
Human nature
Human nature is a concept that there is a set of inherent characteristic, which
include ways of thinking, feeling, and action, which all humans tend to have. Although
classical

St. Augustine
The good I do is done by you in me and by your grace; the evil is my fault; it is the punishment you send
me (2)
There are some things in man which even his own spirit within him does not know (3)
I have both body and soul, the one the outer

On Liberty
By: J.S. Mill
Ch.2 Outline of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
Even if the popular opinion is right if people do not debate it then is
will become dead dogma
I.
First division of the argument
An opinion that is suppressed because of an aut

A ristotle-Book 1 continued
*good life-the sort of activity that realizes the highest good
* the good person is not just someone who is generous, but someone who feels good about feeling
generous
* there is a certain amount of luck involved in having a ha

11-29-10
*final essay-come up with something that is a modern virtue that is not on Aristotles list
Book 3-Virtues
*we dont either blame or praise people for characteristics that people just have-such as height, etc.
*how do we know what people just have,

11-22-10
*highest good=exercise of reason
*best life is also living in accordance with virtue
*virtue is an aptitude of character in doing the best actions concerning dealing with pleasures and pains
*virtuous person is not only doing the right thing, but

11/22/10
Notes ch.3
Virtue of character
Review
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3 primary senses of good
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To a virtuous person not only did the right thing but got pleasure out of doing it
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Pleasure and pain are involved
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if ur already doing the thing that just then doesnt that mean

10-4-10
*social contract theory-political arrangements are like a social contract-you receive certain benefits by being a part
of society
*focuses more on which freedoms are given up
*Mill focuses on the freedoms-which freedoms are people owed?
*there are

9-27-10
*On Liberty by Mill-1859
*initial struggle of liberty-upper class opposing the rulers
*rulers were in opposition to those that they ruled
*progression from protecting themselves from tyranny of rulers to protecting tyranny of the
majority
*tyranny

9-22-10
*liberalism-political philosophy and theory of human nature
*political freedom-liberty
*tenets:
*individual people are the best determinants of what constitutes their own
happiness-not the business of state authorities
*limiting state power to all

Philosophy 101 notes: 9/10/10
This is a summary of the ideas and principles that are developed in a much richer and
complicated argument of chapter 2 On Liberty. If you cannot develop reasons and
principles for a statement that you believe is true, it is

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Caffrey Francis
December 16, 2010
Dr. Felis
M/W/F: 11:00-11:50
Title
In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle focuses on his aim to find out a persons chief
end or highest good. <- Not "a person's" highest good, but rather the highest good for a human.
It is a